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Language is a technology that can animate inanimate objects. This is part of the magic of spelling. As such, Tech Autonomists are sometimes careful (or playful) with their use of words to describe technical concepts. Many of these concepts are shared by techno-capitalists, but the words we use for an idea imbue those ideas with a certain energy, so we have chosen to refer to the techno-capitalists’ own concepts with words we feel more precisely reflect their true nature.

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Digital Disquiet

A reference to the intuitive sense of unease, anxiety, and foreboding we feel when attempting to interface with much of technologically-supported society. For good reason, this feeling is believed to have been spawned by technocapitalist culture and its colonization of “Tech.”

deracinate

meaning “to pull up by the roots.” Refers to a process of removing an individual from their origins. In the context of technology and Tech-Autonomy, deracination occurs when an individual’s relationship to technology properly so-called (as distinct from “Tech,” which here refers to the Culture at Large around technology) was initially developed holistically, but was either violently disrupted, socioculturally suppressed, or entirely co-opted for and by Tech, specifically such that the individual’s holistic relationship to technology was destroyed or re-directed. This may include a process of “self-exclusion,” (self-deracination) in which the individual has come to identify technology solely with Tech, its toxic culture, and its being used for evil; this often produces a luddite position, which is perceived to be a form of self-defense or self-elevation (an attitude of being “better than” technology). The word comes from the verb “to deracinate,” meaning “to pull up by the roots.” See deracinate. See also Technodera.

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possessor

A possessor is a machine that holds a user’s data. Techno-capitalists tend to call possessors servers, but the concept of a “server” is one of subordination to another (i.e., it is said to be “serving” or “providing a service”) when in reality, techno-capitalist servers are more like toll booths or checkpoints through which a user must pass to be granted access to the data this machine possesses. For this reason, we call “servers” that behave in this way possessors to make this behavior more explicit to a less-technical population.

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SOP

Initialism for Standard Operating Procedure.

Standard Operating Procedure

A series of steps that describes the standard procedure for performing some operation. See Tech Autonomy SOPs

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technoacatalepsy

One’s state of mind so achieved when the true appearance and true function of a piece of technology are disintegrated, such that there is no “truth” to comprehend. (See also: technokatalepsy.)

technodera

technoderatic
An individual whose relationship to technology (as distinct from “Tech,” which refers to the Culture at Large around technology) was initially developed holistically, but was at some point either violently disrupted, socioculturally suppressed, or entirely co-opted for or by Tech, specifically such that the individual’s holistic relationship to technology was destroyed or re-directed in a process of deracination. The word comes from the verb “to deracinate,” meaning “to pull up by the roots.” See also deracinate.

technomythos

a compendium of folklore, stories, myths, parables, et cetera; used specifically in the context of history alternative to that of technocapitalism.

technokatalepsy

technokatalepsis, technokataleptic, kata code
One’s state of mind so achieved when the true appearance and true function of a piece of technology are integrated into a comprehensible whole. (See also: technoacatalepsy.)

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